Editing Katherine Applegate (section)

== Life and career ==

Applegate was born on October 9, 1956, in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]].<ref name="Daily Free-Lance">{{Cite news |date=October 9, 2020 |title=Library celebrates author Applegate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/henryetta-daily-free-lance-library-celeb/170730955/ |access-date=April 20, 2025 |work=Henryetta Daily Free-Lance |page=A2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Jennifer M. |date=January 29, 2013 |title=Newbery Winner Katherine Applegate: Writing 'The Gorilla Book' |url=http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1916#m18799 |access-date=April 20, 2025 |website=[[Shelf Awareness]] |type=Interview}}</ref> Since then, she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Illinois, and North Carolina. After living in [[Pelago]], [[Italy]] for a year, she moved back to [[Irvine, California]].<ref name="Daily Free-Lance" /> She got her start as a ghostwriter for ''[[Sweet Valley Twins]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-04-28|title=r/IAmA - IAm K.A. Applegate, author of Animorphs and many other books. AMA|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gzhau/iam_ka_applegate_author_of_animorphs_and_many/|access-date=2020-12-13|website=reddit|language=en-US}}</ref> In 1997, she and her husband, [[Michael Grant (young adult author)|Michael Grant]] (her co-author on many projects, including ''Animorphs'' and ''Everworld'') had their first child, who has since come out as a transgender woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2017/09/27/katherine-applegate-one-and-only-ivan-carnegie-library-wishtree/stories/201709270018|title=Writing about big issues through a gorilla, a giant cat and now -- a tree|first=Anya|last=Sostek|publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|access-date=2019-01-15}}</ref> In 2003, they adopted a daughter, Julia, from China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourlibrary.ws/ya_webpage/ritba/ritba09/homeofbrave.htm|title=Rhode Island Teen Book Award: Home of the Brave |first=Aaron|last=Coutu|publisher=Rhode Island Teen Book Award Committee|access-date=2009-10-29}}</ref> Following the end of ''Remnants'', Applegate took three years off. Upon returning to writing, she wrote a picture book, ''Buffalo Storm'', a middle reader novel, ''Home of the Brave'', and an early chapters series, ''Roscoe Riley Rules'', with [[HarperCollins]]. ''Home of the Brave'' won the SCBWI 2008 [[Golden Kite Award]] for Best Fiction,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scbwi.org/pdf/07GoldenKite_Release.pdf|title=The Society of Children's Book Writers and illustrators Announces the winners and honorees of the 2007 Golden Kite Awards |date=5 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205012149/http://scbwi.org/pdf/07GoldenKite_Release.pdf|archive-date=2009-02-05}}</ref> the Bank Street 2008 Josette Frank Award,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom/awards.html|title=Bank Street - Children's Book Committee|website=www.bankstreet.edu|access-date=2008-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106195044/http://www.bankstreet.edu/bookcom/awards.html|archive-date=2010-01-06|url-status=dead}}</ref> and is a Judy Lopez Memorial Award honor book.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba-books.org/la/awards.html|title=Women's National Book Association|website=wnba-books.org|access-date=2008-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091218164353/http://www.wnba-books.org/la/awards.html|archive-date=2009-12-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Applegate won the 2013 [[Newbery Medal]] for ''[[The One and Only Ivan]]'', drawn by Patricia Castelao and published by [[HarperCollins]]. The annual award, granted by the American Library Association, recognizes the previous year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children." The story, based on the real-life [[Ivan (gorilla)|Ivan]] the gorilla, is written from Ivan's viewpoint<!--as the diary, we say in the book stub--> as he lives in a glass cage in a shopping mall. According to the award committee: "Applegate gives readers a unique and unforgettable gorilla's-eye-view of the world that challenges the way we look at animals and at ourselves."<ref name=newbery/><ref name=pr2013/>